ArcGIS Contracts in the South East

ESRI ArcGIS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring ArcGIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ArcGIS over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 183 209
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 +67
Contract jobs citing ArcGIS 10 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.081% 0.018%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.76% 1.06% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £385 £320 -
25th Percentile £431 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.25% - -
75th Percentile £720 £519 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +120.00% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -32.50% -28.57%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

ArcGIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 362 378 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.28% 7.68% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 239 406
10th Percentile £220 £263 £199
25th Percentile £375 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - -4.36%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £598
90th Percentile £653 £638 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 32
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.40 £22.02
25th Percentile £23.30 £30.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £67.02 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.10% +16.56% +187.50%
75th Percentile £58.09 £70.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £68.40 £72.00 £74.87
England median hourly rate £42.27 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.77% -22.22% +104.55%

ArcGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing ArcGIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ArcGIS in the South East

ArcGIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ArcGIS in the South East

ArcGIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ArcGIS in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ArcGIS in the South East

ArcGIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ArcGIS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for ArcGIS in the South East

ArcGIS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ArcGIS within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Sussex - 6 £720 -
Thames Valley +9 4 £413 +3.13% 5
Berkshire +9 4 £413 +17.86% 4
ArcGIS
England

ArcGIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (30.00%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) GIS
2 4 (40.00%) Spatial Data
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
General
1 5 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) GIS Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Maximo Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (10.00%) GIS Manager
5 1 (10.00%) GIS Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Open Source
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
6 2 (20.00%) Validation
7 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) ESRI
2 6 (60.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle